Has the "Social Network" Destroyed MySpace?

Today, News Corp announced that they will be selling one of the social media websites, MySpace. I was one of the original users of MySpace many years ago. I remember getting so excited when receiving friend requests, updating statuses, and moods with the many different types of smiley faces. MySpace was a mixture of Facebook and blogging. Your friends could comment on your page as well as read about your life and what was on your mind.

It has changed so much since then. MySpace became a world of spam, harassing friend requests, music fan pages, and advertisements everywhere. It became a very unpleasant place to visit each day. I decided to discontinue the use of social media networks, although I did not terminate by account with MySpace, I was just an inactive user. While writing this blog, I decided to take a look at my account. I signed in and it looked completely different then the last time I had used it! I didn't even know where to start exploring! There were music video advertisements and the tabs at the top, which allowed you to access your page to make changes, add friends, etc., were very small. I decided to cancel my account and it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to cancel it!

Freshmen year of college, I decided to try Facebook... I loved it! It was nothing like MySpace. Although Facebook has many things I dislike about it today, there are rarely any pestering friend requests from "creepy" guys that you have never met and the users of Facebook are genuinely there to reconnect with friends.

I believe that Facebook has done everything right to keep the users they currently have and to draw in new users each day. Many users of Facebook are actually addicted to visiting the site! They cannot go one week, one day, even one hour without checking to see if their friends have commented on their page or what everyone else is doing at that moment.

MySpace has big shoes to fill, even with these upcoming renovations, I find it hard to believe that they will ever become a large social media network again.